Every now and then it just pops into my head to go and see what you're all talking about, and even though I know half of it is going nowhere, I still just want to know what you're all up to. Sometimes I think I've turned into a proper nutjob, but then I think it all through again, and I think. nope, the way its being spun everywhere else just doesn't quite add up. If I'm mad, at least I feel like I've got interesting company...
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This describes my journey as well. I actually got to the point of thinking, well ok, I guess I'm racist, but I'd rather be called that than twist myself into believing the nonesense I'm being asked to believe. It was the - "if you challenge the idea of white privilege, you're the problem" - that REALLY started me towards looking at trump for the first time.
I feel like I've been having a one-sided conversation for decades - i really could not understand how people could be conservative - I literally thought they were evil monsters. The reason I couldn't understand it is because I was never exposed to thoughtful conservative viewpoints. My big wake up was when I responded to a facebook comment one day and someone mentioned cultural marxism. I'd literally never heard of it and expressed curiosity and the other person posted a link of Jordan Peterson talking about it. It blew my mind because it was ideas I'd never even heard of (being a science/engineering sort) and I just devoured this whole different way of thinking. The world has made vastly more sense to me since the missing piece of the puzzle was introduced - at least I now have a sense of what it is that people are disagreeing about - before I just thought conservatives were selfish people who didn't care about others.
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, and all of Thomas Sowell's books have been helpful to me. I really hope that we get to a place where people start talking to each other again...
Same page, friend. It's nice to find people who went through the same process.